Second set of bids for waste hauling reviewed

Tim BusbeyPublished: September 14, 2006 12:00AM

By BONNIE TAYLOR
T-G Correspondent
JEROMESVILLE Council opened a second set of sealed bids for waste hauling at Mondays meeting.
Only two of the three companies that submitted bids in August returned new numbers. Allied Waste, Jeromesvilles current hauler, submitted a two-year plan to offer unlimited pickup at a price of $15.45 per month ($12.50 for seniors). They would offer four-bag limits for $12.50 or eight-bag limits for $13.50, all with no fuel recovery additions.
Browns Trash Removal submitted a second bid of $12.05 per month for unlimited pickup, with a senior price of $12.05, for two years with no fuel recovery additions. Waste Management did not rebid. Council will review the proposals.
A third reading of a proposal to create a position of village fiscal officer was completed. The position will replace the elected office of clerk-treasurer and is expected to be filled by Karol Lapp, upon the completion of her elected term. The new post is a hired/appointed one.
Council approved tax rates as presented by the Ashland County auditors office at 1.6 mills inside limits, 3.5 outside limits for the general fund and 0.8 mills inside limits for street lights.
Lapp still is waiting to hear from U.S. Rep. Ralph Regulas office about $800,000 in grant money for the villages sewer project. The village was rejected for the funds last year and reapplied.
It was the week of Thanksgiving when we heard last year, and could be as late as the first of (2007) before we know, she said.
Solicitor Rick Wolfe said, All of the pieces are in place to start bidding the project, and knowing the true cost might help us (get the grant money). Well know how much of a shortfall there actually is. We just need the proper authorizations to seek the bids, and that documentation will be completed this week.
Meeting with the sewer project engineers and the Ohio Department of Transportation have reached an agreement the Ohio 89 portion of the Jeromesville sewer project will be completed by the end of June, before resurfacing of the road. No Issue II funds for additional projects will be sought for the upcoming year.
We cant afford our 50 percent of any additional projects right now, Lapp said.
Residents Thorne and Linda Nethero have offered to donate and plant dwarf flowering trees on town hall land near where the chestnut trees were recently cut down. Council approved the proposal and thanked them for the offer.
A storm sewer on Plum Street is crumbling and will continue to be watched. Hopes are replacements on that street can be delayed until after the waste water sewers are installed.
The snow plow and other needed equipment for the newly purchased village dump truck have been ordered. Hayesville has expressed interest in purchasing the old village truck.